[Haskell-cafe] Re: Adding an ignore function to Control.Monad

[Magnus Therning]

Stephan Friedrichs wrote:
> Johan Tibell wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> I also think void is clearer than ignore.
> 
> So do I. Another point is, that it's familiar from other languages; a
> function "void f(...)" doesn't return anything but may have an effect on the
> environment.

That depends on what languages you are familiar with, of course.  To me void
is a type (C/C++) while ignore is a function (OCaml) ;-)

/M

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